Elon Musk: To Defeat Waste and Fraud, We Must Understand and Reprogram the Matrix

Elon Musk: It's critical to understand the matrix—understand how government computers work.

“The government is run by computers. Several hundred computers that effectively run the government. When the president issues an executive order, that's got to go through a whole bunch of people until ultimately it is implemented at a computer somewhere.

And if you want to know what the situation is with the accounting, if you're trying to reconcile accounting and get rid of waste and fraud, you must be able to analyze the computer databases. Otherwise, you can't figure it out.

That's why I cryptically referred to reprogramming the matrix. You have to understand what's going on at the computers. You have to reconcile the computer databases in order to identify the waste and fraud.”